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The aim of this study is to infer dietary texture from dental microwear during the Natufian hunter-gatherer to pre-pottery Neolithic agricultural development in northern Israel. Microwear patterns were recorded from sixty skeletons form eight sites.

The Andean civilisations grew in an isolated fashion, with almost no influence from the rest of the world or indeed from further north in the Americas. The various Andean states and empires all came to express themselves in highly original and different art styles, not least the Moche.

This work presents systematic and objective examination of the large corpus of Hellenistic gold Eros jewellery. By focusing on the question of the interconnections between the major centres of production - Egypt, South Italy and South Russia, Western Asia Minor, Greece and Syria a number of regional schools and new jewellery groups are identified. The keys to the discussion are the well documented find contexts from Northern Greece, South Italy and Tel Atrib (Egypt) that make it possible to arrive at a relative chronology for a particular type of Eros, found throughout the Hellenistic world. The morphological, stylistic, iconographic and technical continuities between Hellenistic jewellery and in particular the Eros motif ensure the successful use of this methodology. Evidence from Koroni in Attica and from several South Italian tomb groups has been examined in detail and dated, according to the methodology described above to ca. 240 BC. The study includes a discussion of the significance of Eros in the Hellenistic period. The study has shown the value of Eros jewellery as an indicator of the cultural life of the Hellenistic world - its values, literature and basic lore about nature and the arts. The Eros motif and its morphological lineage are traced through related depictions in contemporaneous decorative arts. The catalogue has brought together as much material as possible to establish a typology and chronology of Eros jewellery in the hope that it will provide the maximum amount of information for future studies. 32 plates, including 12 in colour, illustrate the work.

Les données actuelles sur le peuplement de la péninsule italienne suggèrent un retard dans l'acquisition des autapomorphies néandertaliennes, lié à leur isolement géographique. En Europe, les premiers traits dérivés néandertaliens apparaissent il y a environ 450 ka alors qu'en Italie les spécimens présentent une morphologie archaïque par la présence de plésiomorphies et les premières autapomorphies seront individualisées qu'à partir du MIS 9 (350 ka ca.). Ce livre propose une révision des restes fossiles mandibulaires italiens attribués à Homo neanderthalensis : Guattari 2, Guattari 3, Fate 2, Fate 3 et Archi 1, afin de les replacer dans le contexte évolutif européen à travers une analyse morphologique et morphométrique. De plus, la présence de spécimens immatures amène à l'analyse de la croissance mandibulaire, sujet qui divise la communauté scientifique : certains auteurs définissent l'ontogenèse néandertalienne similaire à celle de l'homme moderne et d'autres mettent en évidence des trajectoires évolutives divergentes basées sur une précocité de maturation chez les Néandertaliens.This book proposes a revision of Italian mandibular fossil remains attributed to Homo neanderthalensis - Guattari 2, Guattari 3, Fate 2, Fate 3 and Archi 1 - in order to place them in the European evolutionary context through a morphological and a morphometrical study.

Spine title: Meroitic settlement in central Sudan.

Thirteen papers from two seminars, discussing wall-painting in different areas of France. Contents include: La Normandie ( D. Halbout-Bertin ); Rouen ( P. Halbout ); Lisieux ( C. Lemaître ); Les peintures du Vieil-Evreux ( A. Gruaz ); Bordeaux ( A. Barbet ); Plassac ( M.-O. Savarit ); Carhaix ( S. Campo ).

Swedish National Maritime Museum, Stockholm Report No 20

Rev. ed. of author's thesis (doctoral--University of New York, 1979).

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